Ojeda fought back tears as he explained the decision to rush her to a closer hospital.

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Ojeda told the driver to head to Broward Health North hospital just 10 miles away, where doctors immediately took her in.

“Perhaps if we had gone 30 miles away, she wouldn't have made it,” he said at North Broward Monday. “Something made me disregard a faraway voice saying she needs to go to Broward General. We brought her here.”